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Architecture Notes
Event ID 689934
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Architecture Notes
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/689934
NT27NE 641 27586 76032
Georgian Housing after the New Town fashion.
Front blocks are of three story and basement. Stones: rusticated ground floor: cornice at eaves. Recessed block issued commercially and suffers from neglect. There are interesting openings (built up) in the screen walls.
Projected Georgian Housing on th North side of Leith Links. The drawings from this scheme are dated 1823 and are signed by Thomas Brown, City Superintendent of Works. The scheme was not carried out.
NMRS Prints & Drawings:
City Architect's Department - Feuing Plan and 4 Sheets Street Elevations City Architects Plan Store, Drawer No. 7. Drawings Nos. 7
National Buildings Reocrd - Block Plan appended: taken from a plan of 1826 in the City Architect's Plan Store, Drawer 7. (Drawing made by A. Rollo, 1948).
NMRS REFERENCE:
Historical File:
1 Page plan showing James Place, Bath Street and James Place Lane. From 1823 Plan in City Architect's Store.
